See Snow, will Travel...

Max, Zorro & I hit the mountains Wednesday morning for a little summer endurance training. A nice thing about the Colorado mountains is that, if you have the stamina & endurance, you can usually make it to snow almost year round!

Looking at a patch of snow high up on Peak 9. About 2,000 feet of hiking & climbing and we'll be there!
We started the hike in town (the left image) and hit our high point in this patch of snow (right image).

We spotted a nice patch of snow up on Peak 9 and hit the trails to experience that snow!

The Route:

• 7.3 miles roundtrip.
• 1,800 feet until our toes first touched snow.
• 2,000 feet until we were in the large patch high up on Peak 9.
• Ascending 2,000 feet in 3.3 miles before taking a little easier route down - STEEP!

On arriving at our first small snow patch, Zorro's thoughts, "Cool, tasty - YUM!"

Max says, "Rub your head - nice & cool!"

"Good idea bro! Ahhh, cool!" declares Zorro.

"Do the whole body! Rub a dub snow!" exclaims Max.